(Source: Baltimore Sun, November 3, 2011)
BALTIMORE, Md. — Maryland commuter train riders will have more seats when the state adds 16 rail cars to its busy MARC lines. But the cars won’t arrive until 2013. The 54 new rail cars will cost $153 million from Bombardier Transit Corporation, a Quebec based firm. Thirty-eight of the cars will replace old ones in the fleet. The new rail cars will allow 3,000 additional commuters to sit per trip.
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